San Francisco, CA

San Francisco is probably my favourite city in the USA. I don't know why, but I feel really at home here, and for some reason most people there think I'm a local so obviously there's a connection.

Note This article is part of our USA Retrospective series, featuring images captured on an early generation Kodak DC220 digital camera with 1280x1024 resolution. The images have post processed to artificially increase sharpness. Please forgive us if they do not meet your expectations of photographic quality.

I am not going to summarise San Francisco in this post because this is not intended to be a tour guide, but I have visited this city many times (primarily to visit various technology companies in the Bay Area and Silicon Valley).

I can't pretend to distill the spirit of the city in a few photographs, so I've chosen to represent San Francisco by the Golden Gate Bridge (and I've tried to show both the well known west side as well as the more elusive east side), the Presidio, the Golden Gate Park, Twin Peaks and Stanford University.

The Golden Gate Bridge of course needs no introduction and it has become an iconic symbol of the city itself. Most tourists are familiar with the west wide of the bridge. The east side of the bridge is more elusive and best viewed from the water. I've captured it from Lincoln Boulevard.

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The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or The Royal Fortress of Saint Francis) is a park and former U.S. Army military fort on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It is a stop on the 49-Mile Scenic Drive.

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Another stop on that drive is the Golden Gate Park. This is long rambling park with various feature gardens, museums and other attractions. The photographs here depict the Park in 1997, and I am sure some things have changed since.

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Finally, Stanford University at the heart of Silicon Valley near Palo Alto is of course well known and a powerhouse for educating and enabling the people founded the various technology companies in the Valley as well as the people who work in those companies today.

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